monasticism and religious orders

"An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, andno visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community, over Wren and her mother. But over the course of one summer, a miracle performed by Wren's father quickly turns to tragedy. As the order of her world begins to shatter, she must learn the truth of her family's harrowing history in order to imagine a different future for herself"--Jacket flap.

Chonicles the rise and fall of the military-religious crusading order known as the Templars during the twelfth century.

While spending the summer at an international camp in Tibet, Peter's older brother leads him to a remote monastery and introduces him to a new mystic order.

Brother William turns detective in medieval Italy when seven bizarre deaths take place in seven days and nights.

Listings of the Relgious Communities of Priests, Brothers, and Sisters active in the United States.

If a monk is searching for God, that is what, consciously or unconsciously, we are doing - searching for the God who alone can give meaning to our lives, peace for our restless hearts.

Presents a detailed history of the Order of the Knights Templar, and features information gathered from the Chinon Parchment, which reveals the transcript of the Templar's leadership trial by the Inquisition.